RE: Connecting to NetShare with Vista boxes...problem continues

Thanks for the idea about kicking it. It may come into
use. ;)

And for the record, I did not buy the boxes with Vista
on it. I urged against it. But when the "sale" at the
time is on machines with vista on it, that is what got
ordered, and now I am asked to try and get it to work.


I again urged long ago that the $100 per computer to
change the license to XP pro would be a well thought
out investment vs the man power put into trying to
make this work. But again, apparently my hours are on
"sale" and the switch to XP pro is not.

Thanks everyone for the insight,
Chad


--- albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Any ideas are greatly appreciated. I'm up for

trying anything.

One time I got really mad at a machine and kicked
it. The thing that was
broke then worked! Of course some other things
discontinued working, but
hey, you said you would try anything :-)

On a serious note, can you buy Dell machines without
Vista? I don't know
why anybody would be installing Vista yet given
Microsoft's history of
releasing before software is ready for primetime
(remembering my earlier
Biztalk days - yuck).

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chad Carroll
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 5:31 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Connecting to NetShare with Vista
boxes...problem continues

Hello all,

Awhile ago I posted on the PCTECH list that I was
having problems accessing
a shared drive on our iSeries with new Vista
machines. I finally have found
some time to delve back into this issue and am once
again not succeeding.

A quick summary, we have 3 brand new Dell's running
Vista Business, all
current with updates. I have all of the Vista
"enhancements" turned off,
there does not seem to be any security getting in
the way. These boxes are
reaching internet, sharing with each other, and
sharing with older 2000 and
XP machines that are in the office without issue.

Our internal iSeries is a 270 running v5r1 that we
have run our office share
off of for many years. This is an extremely vanilla
network. No domains, no
enhanced security, or anything that should get in
the way. Every win98,
win2000 and winXP machine that we have had in this
office will connect to
this share in a matter of seconds.

The Vista boxes will not connect to this share. I
can ping the machine name,
telnet, 5250, and ftp to this machine fine. But no
netshare. The 270 happens
to be out dhcp server as well, and the vista
machines get an IP no problem.
I have tried all machine and user naming conventions
you can imagine and
this does not help

I have just as of today finished with the most
current PTF CUM and Hypers
on this v5r1 machine hoping that was the issue. All
of these installed
successfully, but they did not fix the issue.

Now to make it more confusing is that we have an
external 800 running v5r2
that we can connect to through firewall ip
filtering, but this is still very
vanilla, no VPN. From these vista machines I CAN
EASILY connect to the Net
Share that we are running on the 800. File transfer
works like a charm, no
issues at all.

From what I have looked at the netshare on the two

machines are set up identically simple. I can not
see any server side
settings that would prevent this. The vista machines
will pop up saying
"unexpected network error" but if you diagnose it,
Vista tells you
everything is fine.

So, any of you out there getting Vista to access
your shares on a v5r1
machine? Anything different between
v5r1 and v5r2 that I missed that could be causing
this issue? This is either
impossible, or I am missing something so simple it's
ridiculous.

Sorry for the long post but we are sort of at a loss
here. We call Dell
support and after so long they say "You have tried
everything we can tell
you to try, you will have to contact Microsoft for
more assistance".
Call Microsoft and they say "You bought it from
Dell, you have to call them
for support".

Any ideas are greatly appreciated. I'm up for trying
anything.

Thank,
Chad